They’re not dodging the issue. It’s just that the question is always the same and the answers aren’t changing — because the Avs keep doing the same thing. Or keep not doing the same thing.

The Avs are allowing too many shots (35.8 per game, third-most in the NHL). By extension, they also aren’t possessing the puck enough. But in a nutshell, in the simplest of stats, they’re getting out-shot.

But Roy, to his credit, on Wednesday tried to break down the Avs’ issues. (Honestly, how many different ways can you say your team is stinking?)

ORNSKOLDSVIK, SWEDEN – It’s been a great last few days for big dumb redheaded me. After writing – often only correctly after two or three attempts – about Ornskoldsvik (I swear, I just mis-typed it twice) – all these years, I finally got to visit the hometown of superstar former Av Peter Forsberg. That’s him above, of course, finishing his morning breakfast Wednesday at the Elite Hotel here, a property he co-owns. He was due to catch a flight back to Stockholm in about an hour, on the airline Next Jet – which he also partially owns. It’s as good to be Peter Forsberg as it ever was.

This city of about 35,000 is way north in the country, close to the arctic circle really. There’s not a lot of daylight in the winter – it gets pretty dark by 4 p.m. or so, but it’s a beautiful little place nestled among a harbor and forestland.

Forsberg is going into the Hockey Hall of Fame Nov. 17 in Toronto, and we’ll have MUCH more on him from this visit in the paper leading up to induction day. It’s been an honor to hang out a lot with him and his family in Sweden since arriving on Sunday. Peter has two young children now with fiancee Nicole, a 2 1/2 year old son, Lennox, and a daughter only a few weeks old, Lily.Read more…

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.

Chambers covers college and professional hockey for The Denver Post. He has written for the Post since 1994, after dumping his first 9-to-5 office job a couple years out of college. He primarily follows the University of Denver hockey team and helps cover the Avalanche.